TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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"Someday science will advance to the point that it will prove the validity of all of the non-dual teachings."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
THE RATIONALE FOR PAYING HEED TO PROVABLE SCIENTIFIC FACTS RATHER THAN TO A CONCEPTUALIZED SUPER-BEING FROM ANOTHER WORLD
Today you are invited to consider the following:
1. If there is nothing that has ever been created and nothing that has ever been destroyed, and if all is merely cycling instead, then no "you" was created. Those called "your parents" merely cycled already existing energy / matter. No "you" has ever existed. What has seemingly existed are dreamed up but totally false identities.
As for the commonplace belief among the masses that "we made a child, we made another human," nothing of the sort happened.
There was energy / matter in a vast field of unconfined energy / matter.
A series of events set the stage on earth for plants to flourish. Those plants absorbed energy. Plant cells with energy (including conscious-energy) can be consumed and - once digested - can be converted from plant cells into human cells, animal cells, etc.
Via that chain of events, previously "free-ranging energy" transferred into a different space . . . manifested into a confined space / body (as happens when humans consume energy and consume matter by eating plants or eating something which ate plants).
That is an all-natural process requiring no divine intervention, no supernatural influences, etc. It happens spontaneously, automatically, is all determined by the functioning of the totality and the functioning of conscious-energy / consciousness.
Within an acorn is conscious-energy which can guide the process by which an oak can manifest and by which, eventually, a forest can manifest. Similarly, within humans is conscious-energy which guides the process by which "a human" (actually, a composite unity) can manifest and by which, eventually, "a race of humans" (actually, composite unities) can manifest.
You are also invited to consider this:
2. No "You" or "Supreme You" was ever created either, so no "You" or "Supreme You" has ever existed or will ever exist. Any perceived "You" or "Supreme You" which has seemingly existed was merely dreamed up and is a "False Identity."
So what is the near-all-powerful drive which inspires 97% of the humans on the planet to affiliate with one religion or another and to worship gods and goddesses or a god? And what two factors drive most of the remaining humans to claim to be spiritual and in relationship with a god or a "Higher Power" or some other Power of their conception (or of someone else's conception)?
The clue to the first factor is in the last sentence:
A. Power.
All humans become addicted at some point to something (or more often to many things as well as to another person or persons on occasion). While the object of their addiction can vary, one thing does not: they all have a primary and a secondary addiction which they share in common.
The primary addiction of all humans is an addiction to control.
Their secondary addiction is an addiction to power (or "Power") in order to be able to control.
And secondly . . .
B. Desires and fears
There are nine basic personality types which are either set in place by the age of 6 or which will - to one degree or another - manifest in the coming years and will then last throughout the remainder of the relative existence. As is the case with every persona or false identity, each has a single, most basic desire and a single, most basic fear.
The Type One’s BASIC FEAR that people might find out that they are wrong or imperfect
The Type One’s BASIC DESIRE is to be seen as being right and perfect and knowing it all
The Type Two’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of not being loved
The Type Two’s BASIC DESIRE is to be loved by all
The Type Three’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of being seen as worthless or not being admired by the masses
The Type Three’s BASIC DESIRE is to feel valuable and to be popular and famous and applauded and acclaimed and admired by everyone
The Type Four’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of lacking authenticity
The Type Four’s BASIC DESIRE is to be authentic and to "march to the beat of a different drummer"
The Type Five’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of not being perceived as being highly intelligent and having mastered a wealth of knowledge
The Type Five’s BASIC DESIRE is to be seen as an expert and an intellectual and all-knowing
The Type Six has a BASIC FEAR of having no one to take care of her or his needs
The Type Six has a BASIC DESIRE to be supported
The Type Seven has a BASIC FEAR of being trapped, deprived or in pain (be it mental, emotional, or physical) and not being able to escape and play (no matter their age) and to have fun
The Type Seven has a BASIC DESIRE to be free, to be stimulated and excited, to have enjoyable activities, and to avoid all pain (be it mental, emotional, or physical)
Type Eights have a BASIC FEAR of be powerless, violated or controlled by others
Type Eights have a BASIC DESIRE to have power, to have total control over their own lives, to control all other persons, and to be seen as "the greatest" and "a winner"
Type Nines have a BASIC FEAR of being disturbed by others or inconvenienced and failing to find someone who will care of them in the way in which they believe they are entitled to be cared for
Type Nines have a BASIC DESIRE for “peace of mind” and for reaping the benefits of their perceived entitlement and being taken care of
That said, 97% of all persons will continue to cling to magical thinking and to beliefs rooted in nothing more than myth and superstition, and millions more will cling to their spiritual personas and have no interest at all in facts? Why?
a. Because the masses are emotionally-intoxicated, and scientific facts do not generally trigger emotional reactions and "mental highs." Those are within the purview of religious services and spiritual meetings, not scientific understandings.
b. Because of fear: when persons are raised to believe that they will suffer now and for eternity if they question the existence of the god of their parents' and ancestors' conception and raised to believe that if they do not have unwavering faith in the content of their supposedly holy texts, then most will never have the courage to investigate their parents' and ancestors' beliefs, much less challenge them, much less reject them.
c. Because of humankind's fear-and-desire-based addiction to power / a Power and to the belief that power / a Power can and will protect them and can and will "bless" them, fulfilling their every desire maybe now but most certainly later and for eternity.
d. And because the few that are willing to seek in different venues have greater-than-even odds of coming across a famous, "Big Name Teacher" (per Maharaj) who will claim to be sharing "something really different" or "non-dual pointers" but who are really just passing on a camouflaged and convoluted version of dogma and / or spiritual concepts which originated out of religions or came from ideas about "spirituality."
To be continued.
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